Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of new version of Scala based Git platform GitBucket 3.11!

Note: Since this version, GitBucket requires Java8. If GitBucket does not work on your existing environment, check your Java version at first.

Upgrade Scalatra to 2.4

Upgrade Scalatra to the latest version 2.4!

Some existing issues are solved by this update. Main one is a performance issue of raw file downloading in the repository viewer. And also assembled war file size is considerably reduced.

Sidebar and footer for Wiki

_Sidebar and _Footer page is rendered ad sidebar and footer of wiki pages:

Branch protection

Branch protection is available at the repository settings page:

Force push, delete branch and push commit which is not passed status checking are failed in the protected branch:

This feature is implemented on the new ReceiveHook extension point. We can now create plug-in which hooks pushing to the repository like branch protection.

Limit recent updated repositories list

“Recent updated repositories” at the activity timeline page is limited to newest 20 repositories in default as same as “Your repositories”:

Issue actions look-alike GitHub

Issue actions are render with GitHub like style:

Web API for labels

Implemented some API endpoints to allow CRUD labels. These APIs have compatibility with follwing GitHub APIs:

• List all labels for this repository
• Get a single label
• Create a label
• Update a label
• Delete a label

In addition, this release contains some improvements and bug fix. See all closed issues in this release to know details.

Enjoy GitBucket!